In the middle of February 2019, I went to Vilnius, Lithuania, to give a presentation on how to transform your meeting design into experience design. Experience design is not a new fancy word. It is merely a method to enhance the outcome you want from your event, and I dive …
If you have followed my blog for a while, you know that I write (talk, preach, speak…) a lot about changing the way we have meetings and conferences today – how we have to update the formats of our events and bring them into the new millennium. Be it by …
For the third year in a row I was on the planning committee of the IDA Culture Night and I am getting used to the diverse tasks of planning this fair style event with its many exhibitors and external participants. This year we even had a visit by a live …
New meeting formats, hybrid meetings, and creative meeting room setup. The future is welcoming exciting new ways to meet. In the series of the Future of Meetings I am looking into the new meeting trends we are observing around us. In this blog post I am looking into “creative togetherness …
When I introduce experience design to new clients (check out what I mean when I talk about experience design), the first question I get is “But isn’t it expensive??”. And I tell them the same thing I will tell you now: “It might cost you some time, but it does …
What does your attendees say about your event when they get back in the office the morning after? Do they tell their colleagues what a fantastic day they had, all of what they learned and who they met? Or do they do the ‘walk of shame’ – thinking back on …
You cannot talk about the future of meetings without thinking of technology. In this blog post, I will dive into the so-called hybrid meetings. A hybrid meeting is a meeting where you combine a face-to-face meeting with a virtual component. You gather participants in a physical meeting room and have …
Not so long ago I attended a company kick-off weekend event for a major company. Actually the whole company attended and it was a success – I thought it was great, but – management called it a success. Perfect, that’s the main objective when creating an event. Let me just …
Last week I had a quite large conference under the theme of Industry 4.0. It was a great success with lots of happy attendees, great presentations and networking above all. Reflecting upon the Industry 4.0 paradigm afterwards, I got to wonder if we can talk about Meetings X.0 – and …
New year, new ways, new thoughts! My first New Year’s resolution of 2018 is to implement another term for what I work with (experience management), as I introduced back in August 2017. Back then, I talked about how ‘experience’ is a misleading word since it has many connotations. If you …
